[sirens] dana: barrage of rockets fired deep into central israel setting off sirens in tel aviv and surrounding areas. hamas targeting that area for the first time in three days. shrapnel from the rockets injured two people in tel aviv. showing why exactly israel is fighting hamas. i m dana perino. bill: a long week, huh? dana: but a good one. bill: good one, long one. nice to see you. i m bill hemmer, good morning. the latest rocket firing coming as israeli ground forces are reportedly pushing closer to gaza city s shifa hospital closing in on believed to be the heart of hamas operations and leadership. thousands of palestinian civilians fleeing south as there are short pauses to fighting to do that. dana: trey yengst on the ground in southern israel for us. good morning. good morning. i will quickly step out of the frame so you can see what s happening as we speak. you will see some lights there, trails of smoke. those are cluster munitions the israelis are firi
major isis strong hold now for more than two years. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is embedded with iraqi forces on the front line. reporter: the last phase of lifting isis dark curse from iraq begins here. trying to hit a spectral fleeting enemy, lit only by the glow of mosul s city limits. barely two kilometers away. iraqi special forces trained by the u.s. target with a tank here. where they are attacked from during the day. telling us to use humvees as cover when they move. their commander, major salam, has fought isis in fallujah, ramadi, and now the end is near. where did the artillery land, he asks.
just visible in the distant lights of mosul. this is the global tip of the spear in the war on isis. surging forwards on a thin strip of land into isis territory. and as we see in the same area in daylight, facing constant counterattacks. here, they can see isis just beyond the berms. the incoming is from behind it. a truck that pops up. opens fire and vanishes. isis less than a kilometer away, firing at iraqi special forces position. this is a constant day in, day out. where s it moving? he asks.
isis, despite being in their end days, still able to conjure the terror that began their savage rule. the wounded start coming back, but we cannot film them. a steady stream. the unit we were with earlier on the roof have been hit. rockets struck. many of them asleep. tightly packed in a room. the blast killed 14 soldiers. many limbs torn clean off. major salam is shown the weapons of the dead. he pauses in emotion. you guys are heroes, he says and none of you should be affected by this. those suicide bombers are nothing. two kilometers from mosul city, and seven left to the center to go. nick paton walsh, cnn, near mosul.
damage there was to the plane until he got out of there, so lot of scary moments there. very terrifying moments for those people on board. no doubt about it. the plane had come from london. had that happened any later oh, sure. it could have been catastrophic. no doubt about it. nick valencia, thank you so much. iraqi troops say they re making some problem in the fight against isis near mosul, but that progress may come at a price as isis rounds up thousands of innocent civilians. the gop ceasing on new details in this clinton e-mail scandal, banding together against the democratic party and praising the fbi. will this in some way bring the republican party together and stop the infighting? we ll see. let s talk about it. (vo) maybe it was here, when you hit 300,000 miles. or here, when you walked away without a scratch.